La Farge House

At the February 22, 2024, Board of Directors meeting, the Education, Research, and Archives Committee recommended that the La Farge House be added to the HSFF Register of Properties Worthy of Preservation. The Board approved the recommendation, adding the property with its incredible 150-year history to the register. The house was constructed in 1867 on the Santa Fe Trail and witnessed traffic along the 1926-1937 alignment of Route 66. Most notably the home was lived in by Oliver La Farge, anthropologist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and advocate for Indigenous rights in the United States. Oliver La Farge produced much of his writing in the home's office and studio. It is currently occupied by his son, John Pen La Farge. The nomination was written and prepared by UNM graduate student and Mac Watson Fellow Hayden McAfee under the guidance of Dr. Audra Bellmore, John Gaw Meem Curator at the University of New Mexico and manager of the John Gaw Meem Archives in Southwest Architecture.

Nomination summary by Hanna Churchwell.